- Base-ball record: games played, four; games won, two.
- Professor Tenney intends to make an expedition to Labrador next summer. A number of students will accompany him; the estimated expense of the trip is from $150 to $200.
Tufts.- A Dramatic Club has been organized.
- The athletic sports occurred November I, at the Mystic grounds.
- Music is on the rise. There are now two classes in College, and an orchestra is forming.
- The New England Association of College Presidents met with President Capen, Wednesday, October 25.
Cornell.- Instruction in astronomy is now given by lectures.
- The Juniors have beaten each of the other three classes at foot-ball.
- Professor Carson has accepted an invitation to read a paper on Shakspere's Versification before the "New Shakspere Society" of London, on the second Friday in June.
Miscellaneous.- The Hamilton Boating Association has died a natural death.
- The Hon. Edmund H. Bennett, dean of the law school of Boston University, has offered a prize of $50, to be known as, the "Hillard prize," for the best essay written by any member of the school during the school year.
- A book entitled "American Colleges" will be published during the winter. Mr. C. Richardson of the Independent is to be the editor and publisher.
- In a game of hare and hounds at Rugby, October 20, there were two hares and twenty-five bounds, of whom fifteen came in, most of them before the hares. The extent of the run is fixed before the game begins, and the hares run to a definite point.